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Startups Win $25,000 In CSULB Challenge

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Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach. According to Sunstone Management, four teams from the colleges of health and human services, business and engineering participated in the finals.

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Virgin Orbit Sets Planned Board

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Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit has set the planned board of directors for the company, assuming its ongoing special purpose acquisition (SPAC) deal goes through as planned. Virgin Orbit is developing a space launch system based on a modified 747-400 aircraft.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly. We're very excited to be working with them, to help us create a platform for us for future acceleration and growth, and we're working on additional investments down the track.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. 43% of all goods arriving into American ports come through LA and Long Beach ports in Los Angeles.